Search & find

Two separate tools cover two separate questions: which page has what you’re looking for, and where on this page it is.

Searching everything

To open the search palette, click the spark button in the bottom-left corner, or press Cmd/Ctrl-P. On iPhone and iPad, pull down past the top of the feed, or tap the search button in the keyboard toolbar. Type to search every page and note you ever wrote.

Results rank a close text match above a popular page, and a popular page above an old one. An exact or near match to your words always outranks everything else.

A query of two or more words matches each word on its own, anywhere in the text and in any order. mimir tags and tags mimir both find a page titled “On Tags in Mimir.”

A word of five or more letters still matches on one typo: one wrong, missing, or extra letter. Spell shorter words exactly.

To close the palette from the keyboard, press Escape. You can also press Backspace when the search field is empty. Holding Backspace to clear your text stops at the empty field and doesn’t close the palette.

Search operators

Type any of these into the search palette, combined with ordinary search words or with each other.

@pages meeting searches page titles for “meeting.” @pages @date(2026) lists every page created in 2026.

Finding text on a page

Press Cmd/Ctrl-F to open a find bar over the page you’re looking at. Type to highlight every match on that page. Press Escape to close it.

This only searches the page in front of you. It doesn’t open on the journal, because the journal shows several days at once and a match wouldn’t tell you which day it came from. In the journal, use the search palette instead.